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Acts 24:11 KJV
Acts · chapter 24 · verse 11
Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.Acts 24:11 · King James Version
Acts 24:11 in context
9And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
10Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
11Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
12And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
13Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- understandginōskōto learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel, to become known, to…G1097 →
- JerusalemierousalēmJerusalem = " set ye double peace" , denotes either the city itself or the…G2419 →
- mayestdynamaito be able, have power whether by virtue of one s own ability and resources, or of a…G1410 →
- twelvedekadyotwelveG1177 →
- sinceapoof separation, of local separation, after verbs of motion from a placeG575 →
- sincehoswho, which, what, thatG3739 →
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We have here Paul's defence of himself, in answer to Tertullus's charge, and there appears in it a great deal of the spirit of wisdom and holiness, and an accomplishment of Christ's promise to his followers that when they were before governors and kings, for his sake, it should be given them in that same hour what…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-21